The algorithm knows I’m writing for The Bold Italic these days. My social media feed has increasingly been filled with articles about San Francisco, but none of it’s good.
“Spiraling in San Francisco’s doom loop.” “What happened to San Francisco, really?” “SF’s decline is a warning to other American cities.” Does anyone in mainstream media have anything nice to say about San Francisco? Or is this a kind of national schadenfreude, where it’s fun and trendy to shit all over what is still — by any standard — the most beautiful big city in America? A city that still managed to attract 1.7 million international tourists last year?